Updated April 2024
Our ambition is to reach ever-wider audiences, bringing them the exciting sound-world of contemporary music, engaging them in opportunities to take part, and making our work inspiring and relevant to their lives.
Where we want to be
We want to increase our reach to communities, participants and audiences who are not usually able to access high-quality musical activity through either a lack of opportunity, awareness or socio-economic barriers. We want everyone to feel able to engage with new music, and by working with our communities and listening to our audiences, LS is shaping and curating the future of contemporary music, ensuring it can continue to thrive.
Where we are now
Our digital channel and regional touring programme reaches audiences in areas where there is less access to new music performances. Our schools and community projects specifically target under-served areas of great social and cultural diversity, both in London and across the UK, offering free music making opportunities to those who need it the most.
How we get there
Our public participation work actively engages under-represented groups to perform with us on stage. Our CONNECT project in 2022 involved the City Lit Inclusive Choir in a major UK premiere, while a new inclusive work by Alex Paxton included a diverse class group from Belham Primary School, Southwark. Our digital channel and regional touring programme reaches audiences in areas with very little access to new music performances, and we are continually developing new collaborative artistic relationships with new areas in England, most recently in Portsmouth, one of Arts Council England’s Levelling up For Culture places.
Our schools and community projects specifically target under-served areas of great social and cultural diversity, both in London and across the UK, offering free music making opportunities to those who might not otherwise have access. Working with Enfield Council’s Cultural Strategy team, we are increasing cultural engagement in the fifth most deprived London Borough – Enfield - through our ongoing IN TOWN project. We work with students to unlock their compositional voice, support borough residents towards a community-led creative expression of their lived experience, and address inequity representation in music administration, through offering student work experience.
We will always offer accessible price points, with many of our events and most of our digital work, and all of our participation schemes free to access. We will continue to offer free and reduced-price tickets throughout the season to young people, schools and community groups to enable new audiences to attend our concerts and events.
